Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser to President Trump, pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI about contacting Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition. Flynn’s decision to make false statements to the FBI is leaving many wondering, if the phone calls were sanctioned by the Obama administration and cleared of wrongdoing by Comey’s FBI, why didn’t the former military man just tell the truth? snip Political operative and Trump insider Roger Stone says special counsel Robert Mueller was fed false intelligence by ex-CIA Director Chuck Wolsey, which was obtained during a meeting with former Vice-President Joe Biden, and...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Joe Biden holds the pole position in the first CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll among likely 2020 Democratic caucusgoers, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke joining him as the only possible candidates in the field with double-digit support. The new Iowa Poll finds 32% of likely caucusgoers saying they back Biden as their first choice, 19% Sanders, 11% O'Rourke, 8% Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 5% California Sen. Kamala Harris, with the rest of the 20-person field testing below 5% support. The top three candidates in Iowa, including O'Rourke's third-place ranking, match...

Past and current advisers to Biden have held frequent conversations about options to alleviate concerns about age, including teaming him with a younger running mate. One option that has been floated, according to a source with knowledge of the talks, is outgoing Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who at 46 has become the subject of intense 2020 speculation after nearly beating GOP Sen. Ted Cruz.

<p>As he considers running for president, Joe Biden is talking with friends and longtime supporters about whether, at 76, he’s too old to seek the White House, according to several sources who have spoken with the former Democratic vice president.</p>

Third Way: As Democratic candidates line up to vie for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination, a #NeverTrump GOP activist and establishment lobbyist is courting the like-minded to form a coalition around former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Mitt Romey, RINO-Utah, who has lost two bids for the presidency. Juleanna Glover, during a day-long meeting of anti-Trumpers that getting to the “path to 270 [electoral votes] might not be that hard,” Breitbart News reports. Glover’s plot is for Biden to pick Romney as his running mate and for them to run on a one-term party unity ticket pledging to...

Former Vice President Joe Biden gave the strongest signal yet that he is considering a presidential campaign in 2020, describing himself as the “most qualified” person to fill the role. “I’ll be as straight with you as I can,” Biden told a Montana crowd as he promoted his memoir, Promise Me, Dad. “I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president.” It is an unmistakable shot across the bow, staking his claim to the Democrat party’s nomination.

Former Vice President Joe Biden fueled speculation he might make a 2020 bid for the White House, saying Monday night that he believes he is the “most qualified” person to take on President Trump. “I'll be as straight with you as I can. I think I'm the most qualified person in the country to be president,” Biden said at a stop for his book tour in Missoula, Mont. “The issues that we face as a country today are the issues that have been in my wheelhouse, that I've worked on my whole life.” “No one should run for the job...

When polled about whom they prefer to run against President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a thirty percent plurality of Democrats chose “none of the above.” Included among the candidates who were out-voted by the “none of the above” option in the Hill.TV’s latest poll are former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They earned only 25, 18 and 12 percent of votes, respectively.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would be "dumbfounded" if Democrats failed to retake the majority in the House, and expressed certainty that President Trump would question the legitimacy of the results if Republicans falter in Tuesday's midterm elections. "I guarantee he’ll challenge the legitimacy of the vote," Biden said with a laugh when asked about the possibility after casting his ballot in Delaware. "You know, he’s still looking for that million crowd that was there for his inauguration, for God’s sake," Biden continued. "He’s an interesting guy." Biden spoke with reporters after he voted on Tuesday.

In November 2016 the Presidents of the North Triangle: El Salvador, Salvador Sanchez Ceren; Guatemala, Jimmy Morales; and Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández; met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC to discuss the Partnership for Prosperity Plan and the U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America. Well Joe how did we do? Did you meet and discuss the Plan with President Obama? https://sv.usembassy.gov/north-triangle-joint-statement/

It's a question some Democrats are pondering as the 2020 presidential election inches closer: Can their party represent change when three of its top candidates are not only familiar faces, but people in their retirement years? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) will enter her 70s in June. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is 77. Former Vice Joe Biden will turn 76 later this month. Though the primaries are still a ways off, all three have emerged in early polls as favorites to be the 2020 Democratic nominee. Some strategists say that might be a problem. “Democrats would be better off with a...

Obama World is split when it comes to who to back in the 2020 race for the White House. A number of former President Obama’s allies are hoping that former Vice President Joe Biden enters the race and would be ready to back him. Others are hopeful that Obama’s former attorney general Eric Holder — who is close to former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett — takes the plunge. And there are others loyal to former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who has a long working relationship with former Obama strategist David Axelrod and has had conversations with him about running for...

BRIDGETON • Joe Biden came to campaign for Sen. Claire McCaskill and other Democrats on Wednesday and declared that “unions built the middle class” while President Donald Trump was leading the nation into an era of incivility and meanness. Biden did not name Trump in a 42-minute stemwinder, but the former vice president embedded references to Trump throughout. “There is something different about this year’s elections,” Biden told about 1,000 people in a packed union hall here. “This year’s election is bigger than politics. It really is, because the character of our country is on the ballot.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden said he is “sick and tired” of the Trump administration during a fiery speech Tuesday stumping for Democratic Party candidates in Wisconsin one week ahead of the midterm elections.

Former Vice President Joe Biden bemoaned the tone of Trump-era politics at a campaign stop in Iowa on Tuesday, previewing on his first trip to the leadoff caucus state how he might take on the Republican president should he seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “It’s our leaders who need to set the tone and dial down the temperature and restore some dignity to our national dialogue,” Biden said in Cedar Rapids while stumping for Iowa’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate and a House candidate from northeast Iowa. […] Biden quickly pivoted from pleasantries to attacking Trump’s moral leadership, indirectly charging him...

I awake to find yet another homemade potential boom-toon has been mailed to yet another high profile leftie. I suspect that means there will be another spate of mailings involving black-powder-devices-absent-viable-detonators followed by several more days of bombastic hectoring from our media moralizers on the incivility of right wing rhetoric.I ask myself why this is happening and remember that one of the last things I read last night before switching over to an old M.F.K. Fisher book to lull me to sleep: a report from the Mexican government that the army being allowed to march unchallenged through their country so...

Authorities are trying to track down a package addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden because it bears similarities to explosive devices addressed to other prominent Democratic officials on Wednesday, CNN reported. The network cited two law enforcement officials who said they’re unsure if the package directed to Biden is connected to those sent earlier to former President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, among other prominent Democratic figures. A similar package arrived Wednesday morning at CNN's New York City offices addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan. The package was originally sent to Biden’s old address in Delaware,...

It does not take a super smart genius to figure this "Fake Bomb" "Democrat" gig out....Obama/Biden have held failed badly at political rallies, the polling must not be looking good for Democrats internally, so..it is time for the "Desperate Democrats To Try Desperate Things!!! Shucks, a "Kindergarden Kid" can figure this one out. Listen, their master plan to kill the Supreme Court Judgeship of Bret Kavanaugh failed miserably and, Kavanaugh now sits, safely on the bench as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. Americans "ALL", this current Democrat Party needs to be totally defeated & destroyed,...